Have a look at http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=8030#8030
As for LIDAR, see this for actual LIDAR videos:
http://lidar.ssec.wisc.edu/movies/index.htm
Luke
On 26 August 2010 19:56, Martin Gregorie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 09:34 +0200, Michal Jezierski wrote:
> > > Can infrared cameras be used to spot thermals?
> >
> > Sorry, I couldn't restrain myself. There is a joke in my club that goes
> > like this:
> >
> > Russians said in 60s that they are just about to invent a remote thermal
> > detector. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, they are still
> > working on it ;)
> >
> The only believable story I've heard about this involved Maynard Hill, a
> well-known RC flyer and record breaker - he flew a 5.0 kG model aircraft
> across the Atlantic (Newfoundland -> Ireland - the Alcock & Brown route)
> in 2003. He was working at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on
> either UHF radar or Lidar when they saw some odd diffuse blobs. Maynard
> guessed what they were but wouldn't say. Instead, he went home, grabbed
> an RC glider and back at the lab went out with a two-radio, launched the
> model and had the guys talk him into a blob: it was a thermal, of
> course. The radar was picking up dust, insects, etc. carried up by the
> thermal.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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